• null@lemmy.org
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    Biden sitting on the pedo files is a symptom of Dems caring more about decorum than they do results. It’s part of why they keep getting obliterated by Trump.

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        It is for any democrat who makes it into significant power, yes. Gotta work within that system for slow gradual improvements that can be easily undone.

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      Decorum is what they say publicly but let’s be real, the results the Dems care about is campaign funding. They don’t stand up to AIPAC or their extralegal operations because they’re afraid of their money.

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        Oh please. He appointed Merrick Garland to head the DOJ. “Investigate pedophiles” could have easily been one of the requirements for him to nominate

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        Lmao tell that to the current administration. It goes back to what I was just saying, Trump uses his DOJ as a tool in a way Biden never did. Not that Trump actually got the results he wanted, but that’s beside the point.

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            Not sure how you got that other than arguing in bad faith. Democrats are paralyzed into inaction as Republicans fling shit at the wall until something sticks. This paralysis is why a person like Biden would sit on those files for four years, fearing he would appear partisan if he pushed for their release.

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              He didn’t “sit on the files”. They were under DOJ’s purview, because there used to be three separate branches of government that checked and balanced one another. I’m not saying the DOJ under Biden didn’t absolutely drop the ball, because they did. I’m just saying that Trump’s weaponizing of the DOJ is antithetical not to “decorum”, but to democracy. Biden doing it first would have constituted executive overreach just as much as Trump doing it now.

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                Which branch of the government does the DOJ belong to? Who’s at the top of that branch?

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          Just because our current administration tells lies doesn’t mean you need to believe them or expect better. You’re being part of the problem by not understanding how the mechanism of our system works.

          Trump has continued to break the law in every way possible and your defense is “why didn’t other presidents break the law?”

          Gee. Lemme fuckin think…